Heating-stove



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B. LpCALELY.

HEATING STOVE. No. 321,681. Patented July 7, 1885.

NIT-ED STATES Parent rricn.

EDIVARD L. OALELY, OF PHILADELPHIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEO. IV. FLOYD, IRVIN I.WELLS, ISAAC BROOKE, CHRISTIAN IV. WAGNER, \VILLIAM WAGNER, ISAACHALLMAN, AND DAVID FINKBINER, ALL OF ROYERS FORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

HEATSNG STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 821,681, dated July 7,1885.

Application filed August 21. 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD L. CALELY, acitizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in Heating-Stoves, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of an improvement, fully described and claimedhereinafter, in stoves, in which a gas chamber or passage for receivingthe products of combustion from the combustion-chamber is containedwithin a casing between which and an exterior casing is a passage forair to be heated; and the object of my invention is to direct the airagainst the said I 5 casing of the gas-chamber, in order that it may bethoroughly heated before it escapes from the stove.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of aheatingstove with my improvement; Fig. 2, a transverse section of partof stove on the line 1 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a vertical sectionillustrating a modification of my invention; and Fig. 4, a sectionalplan on the line 1 2, Fig. 1.

A is the main combustion-chamber of the stove; B, the fuel-magazine, andD the gaschamber communicating with the combustionchamber. Between thecasing a of the gas chamber and the outer inclosing casing, F, is anannular chamber-passage, b, and to the lower end of the latter air isadmitted through openings (I, this air escaping in aheated conditioninto a drum, G, surmounting the stove, the heated air passing from thisdrum either directly into the apartment containing the stove or into anupper compartment through a suit able pipe.

The outer casing, F, instead of being cylindrical, as usual, is madewith concave sides, as shown, so that the air entering the openings dand rushing through the passage may be deflected by the contractedportion of the casing and caused to impinge against the hi ghly-heatedcasing a of the gaschamber, 5 and receive, by intimate contacttherewith, a

high degree of heat before it enters the drum G.

While I prefer a casing, F, of concave form, this shape need not beadhered to in all cases in carrying out my invention. In Fig. 3, forinstance, I have shown a modification in which a cylindrical casing isabruptly contracted at f, in order to direct the air in its coursethrough the passage 1) against the heated cas ing a.

It has not been deemed necessary to eX- 5 5 plain other parts of thestove, as my invention is restricted to the contraction of the passagea, so that as the air takes its course through the passage the localcontraction of the latter will cause it to receive a higher de- 6 greeof heat than if it had to pursue a course through a passage of uniformwidth.

I am aware that it has been proposed to make a heater with a zigzagcombustion-chamher and an outer casing with internal wings 6 or flangesto compel the air to take a course corresponding with the zigzag casing;but such flanges interfere with the free upward passage of air and serveas traps to form deadair spaces and limit the radiatiugsurface of 0- theouter casing.

I am also aware that a stove has been devised in which. the casing of anair-heating chamber surrounding the combustion-chant her was made ofconical form; but in this case the greatest contraction in the area ofthe airchamber was at the extreme upper end of the combustion-chamber,so that the air was not directed against said combustionchamber untiljust as it was about to issue from the heating-chamber.

In my improved store, on the contrary, the shape of the casing F is suchthat the point of greatest contraction is at or about the center of thecasing, whereby it has a tendency 8 to direct the air against the casinga almost as soon as it enters the air-chamber, the air then rising closeto the said casing, so as to receive as much heat as possible therefrom.

I claim as my invention 0 The combination, in a heating-stove, of thegas-chamber having a straight casing, a, with the outer casing, F,having a concavity or In testimonywhereof I have signed my namecontractionwhercby the air ascending the pasto this specification in thepresence of two sage between the casings is caused to impingesubscribing witnesses.

against the casing a without interference with EDWARD L. OALELY. 5 itsupward movement, the greatest contrac- I \Vitnesses:

tion of the casing F being at or about the cen- 1 JOHN M. CLAYTON,

ter, as set forth. A l HENRY Howson, J r.

